In the present text I'm going to analyse an extract taken from chapter 3 from Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist. The sequence considers the moment when the protagonist is telling the listener about Lahore. 

The narrator's fictional choice is to resort to the drammatic monologue as the most effective, cause of the silence of the stranger. In this way, the novelist brings to surface an Eastern perspective of the facts suchs as the Twin tower collapse.

The speaking voice is Changez, a Pakistani guy that wants to draw the reader's attention on the similarities\differences between Manhattan and Lahore's new districts. Changez sounds ironical comparing Manhattan to Lahorein the use of the exclamation mark in the sentence "Like Manhattan? Yes precisely!". The contraddiction between "men on foot" and "men on four wheels" is a veicol to present the opposition poor vs rich. Poor corresponds to Pakistan while rich to Manhattan.

Changez uses irony as a defence weapon by which he, living in New York, tried to overcome a sense of nostalgia through his senses. His means of surviving to the cultural shock are suitable to highlight a cultural difference which he managed to overcome intellectualy.

In conclusion, the intelligent reader can understand that Changez uses irony in all the aspects he reppresents in order to say that America'society let somebody integrate only if that somebody acts as America'society wants. He uses some similarities to talk about his trust, misleaded by the USA.